SNL Weekend Update Special Guest Jerry Seinfeld advises Eric Massa against trademarking his harassment methods. See the video.
A reader takes a second look at Scott Brown’s victory in the Bay State …
The election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts was widely viewed as early evidence of a surge of voter dissatisfaction that would eventually swamp Democrats in November. But with the benefit of a couple months of perspective, it looks more like the wave crested with Brown’s election. Ironically, it may be the Democratic defeat in the Bay State that saves the party’s prospects in the fall.
Former FCC Chair Reed Hundt brings us up to speed on the FCC’s new national broadband plan and why we should see it and support it as a jobs plan.
Meet the new mystery roiling the Tea Party movement ™ and the more gonzo-ish right wing blogs: is Harry Reid’s Tea Party challenger really a liberal front? Our Christina Bellantoni takes a look.
They say the brave man dies only once, the coward a thousand times. Then there’s the Public Option, which seems to have lived and died probably nine or ten times over the last year. Brian Beutler looks at what’s behind its latest and probably final (in this legislative cycle) demise.
Seinfeld on SNL: I have a feeling “Massa massages” were followed by “Massa-bations.” Watch.
Jeffrey Toobin, on Justice John Paul Stevens and what the Court will look like without him.
When you’re one of America’s most notorious, and tight-lipped, mistresses, what better way to get your story out than posing in panties with stuffed animals for GQ.
Israel’s ambassador to Washington has reportedly declared that “Israel’s ties with the United States are in their worst crisis since 1975 … a crisis of historic proportions.” That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
I’ve grown weary of calling anything involving health care reform “do or die” since it’s been in a zombie state since January. However, this is shaping up as a critical week, with a vote in the House expected Friday or Saturday on the Senate version of the bill. Democrats are whipping furiously to secure the votes needed to pull off step one of the multi-stage process of getting reform through the Senate with just 50 votes. We’re going to be following developments super-closely all week in our live Countdown to Reform Wire. If you want every nugget and every clue as to which way this thing is going, it’s the place for you.